SOIL REPORT ON DITCHFILL 92375 AT NORWICH CASTLE MALL
Author(s): R I Macphail
Two thin sections from an early medieval ditchfill at Norwich Castle Mall were examined. Their analysis suggests that the ditchfill developed through muddy silting and the inclusion of probable locally windblown charred waste. The fill was also contaminated by sewage sludge, possibly from human waste disposal and during the fill's later history of on-site herbivore trampling, the last bringing in coarser mineral material. A timescale of a few years rather than weeks or months, for the development of the fill, is appropriate.
- Report Number:
- 73/1992
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 12
- Keywords:
- Soil/Sediment
